They were married and loved each other, but we for Fun: Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, Arthur Hobson QuinnWhile reading this on the train one day, a man sitting next to me leaned over and said, "Isn't that the guy who married his cousin?" I wasn't sure how to answer that because I had passed the part of Quinn's biography explaining that Poe only married his cousin because he cared for her and his aunt, and not because he was mentally derangedRussell Smith rated it really liked it Oct 22, 2012 WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER, &ldquo;Death of Edgar A&mdash;&mdash;, L&rsquo;trange Vie et les tranges Amours d&rsquo;Edgar Poe (Paris, [1935]) Translated by Edwin GCTwentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature (7th ed.)His exegetical notes are concise but meaty, with rich veins of practical exposition." -DrHH.WLondon Review of Books

107-116, page 108 ^ Knoper, Randall (2003)"Walt Whitman and New Biographical Criticism" College Literature 30(1): ppAccording to the post-feminist critic Elaine Showalter, Jackson's work is the single most important mid-twentieth-century body of literary output yet to have its value reevaluated by critics in the present day.[29] In a March4, 2009, podcast distributed by the renowned business publisher The Economist, Showalter also revealed that Joyce Carol Oates has edited a collection of Jackson's work called Shirley Jackson Novels and Stories that was published in the critically esteemed [30][31] Library of America series.[32]It has often been argued that it is a development from Romanticism, but it also stands in opposition to the Romantic tendency to view literature as manifesting a "universal" transcendence of the particular conditions of its genesisWork[edit]The book seamlessly combines a chronological account of Poe's personal and professional life with tidbits of letters, photos, and personal correspondence that reveal the fragile, sensitive, self-possessed, bitter, tender, arrogant, artistic genius that Poe wasAs for the later, I vividly remember the teacher saying, "I hate cats" and (as an animal lover) being extraordinarily alarmedOriginal letters from Poe like a letter written from Baltimore on May 4, 1833, submitting what he called Tales of the Arabesque for possible publication by the New England Magazine are not only quoted but reproduced in Poes own handwriting on the printed pageIn his mind, Poe was a wonderful person who the world destroyed with its hateful, unfair ways 2ffeafca65